Friday, May 04, 2012

The Wabbit and the Return of the Ice Mice

It was only by chance that the Wabbit was passing the Old Abandoned Laundry. He had just popped through the derelict gates to see if there was anything to see, when a shadow passed over him and he looked up to see a familiar craft. "Ice Mice!" he hissed and he crouched behind an old rusty tank. "I thought they had departed for a distant galaxy," mused the Wabbit. The Ice Mice either didn't see the Wabbit or ignored him, because they were intent on their task. They worked industriously to harvest the disks that fell from their craft and then bore them around with feverish haste. The Wabbit tried to work out what the disks were. They glowed, but not always. Some were bigger, some smaller. Some seemed heavier than others and they all made a sonorous ringing if dropped. The Wabbit could do little on his own, but he saw that one disk had rolled close and he wondered if he could reach it. He stretched and stretched - but it was just out of his grasp and when he nearly had it in his paw, it rolled slightly further way. "Accursed thing!" muttered the Wabbit under his breath. But under his breath was not low enough for the sharp ears of one Ice Mouse and it looked over at the Wabbit and squealed. All the Ice Mice turned to look. "Time to go!" thought the Wabbit and he grabbed the disk, tucked it into his fur and loped for the gate. The Wabbit outpaced the Ice Mice easily, but from the corner of his eye he could see the strange craft close its bay doors and move in his direction.

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The Christmas adventure started with Christmas orders, mysteriously arriving wrapped in Christmas paper. The Wabbit meets Lapinette polishing her automatic. She suggest the message is about the City of Incontinentia. The Wabbit cautiously recruits Lapinettte’s personal guard for the journey. Puma and Terni the dragon are sent ahead through the Quiet Zone which isolates the City. Quickly joined by a heavily armed Wabbit, they learn that Incontinentia is a place where everything is appearance and nothing is real.

When they come upon the city, nothing moves. But suddenly it springs into life. It seems to be a machine. Joined by Tipsy, they enter the city and come across an Agent of Rabit. Tipsy springs with an edged weapon, but the Agent merely falls over. They rendezvous with Lapinette and Fitzy and Mitzy at a gloomy ramshackle washing machine store. The machines revolve and sing threateningly.

Skratch is working undercover, selling tickets outside a blitzed casino. They buy tickets, hop past him and go in. Inside, Lapinette’s personal guard put on an impromptu Brechtian floorshow. On the other side of the City, Jenny, Pirate Chief makes her way from the docks. She overhears two Agents planning to kidnap the Wabbit for ransom. Far away, the Wabbit hears two shots from Jenny’s automatic.

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Follow the Wabbit is a long running story blog now well over 1250 episodes. Commander Wabbit is a Secret Agent loosely attached to the Department of Wabbit Affairs in Turin, Italy. He works with a team of amazing pals who are animals but also pirates, dragons and androids.

Each adventure is separated by an episode set in an Adventure Caffè. That's how you find an adventure in the archives. Use the search box to find Adventure or Caffè. Do cut and paste because of the Italian accent in Caffè. An exciting story has just ended ...and another is starting!

The Adventures are photo collage and text. But everything in the picture is a photograph. Characters and creatures are made from collage material of all sorts, then photographed and cut out. The background photograph is their stage and they are very particular about how it looks.

The Wabbit and Lovely Lapinette adventures are written by Coinneach Shanks. Photographs are by Coinneach Shanks unless otherwise attributed at the bottom of the page. Permissions for photo use may be granted on application and is available at low cost to autism charities and animal welfare organisations. Commander Wabbit himself may be reached at followthewabbit@gmail.com - Or on 00 86 8395914 He's really most approachable and always looking for new ideas!

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Follow the Wabbit is a long running story blog, now more than 1000 episodes. Each adventure is separated by an episode set in an Adventure Caffè. That's how you find an adventure in the archives. Use the search box to find Adventure or Caffè. Do cut and paste because of the Italian accent in Caffè. An exciting story has just ended ...and another is starting!
The Wabbit and Lovely Lapinette adventures are written by Coinneach Shanks. Background photographs are all by Coinneach Shanks unless otherwise attributed at the bottom of the page. Permissions for photo use may be granted on application and is available at low cost to autism charities and animal welfare organisations.
Commander Wabbit himself may be reached at followthewabbit@gmail.com He's really most approachable and always looking for new ideas!

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Coinneach Shanks is the creator of the Wabbit Adventures. Stories, photographs, photo-collage, character development, story-lining and creature animation. Coinneach and Camilla Galli da Bino designed the Skarrots, the Food Dragon, the Puppet Government, Moloch, the Swarm and the Light Creatures. Coinneach Shanks designed Rabbit Jenny the Pirate, the Normots and Panico. All material is copyright. Permissions for use may be addressed to shanks.coinneach@gmail.com

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Clari Csuk is the illustrator of the original Wabbit, Lovely Lapinette and Skratch the Cat Burglar graphics. Also the Wabbit's sometime adversaries, the Ice Mice, The Skuttles and the Euls.

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Fiat Campagnola (jeep) images are by kind permission of Maurizio Boi at http://www.flickr.com/photos/mauboi/ The Balloon Adventure from 08-01-12 These images are otherwise all rights reserved.

The background graphics in ""The Wabbit takes a Quantum Leap" (24-11-11) and "The Wabbit takes the Scenic Route Home," (27-11-11) are courtesy of NASA and are understood to be images in the public domain.

The cover thumbnail in The Wabbit and the Secret Garden (07-12-11) is understood to be fairly used and may be purchased from.

The Merlin helicopter and Type 45 Destroyer published in post 11th April 2014, is courtesy of the UK Ministry of Defence under the Open Government Licence. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/2/